Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 18
... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ...
... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ...
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... genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient ac- count of what manner of persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind ...
... genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient ac- count of what manner of persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind ...
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... genius of one remarkable people we have a fourfold repre- sentation : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Every one must have ...
... genius of one remarkable people we have a fourfold repre- sentation : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Every one must have ...
Page 30
... genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . I ad- mire the love of nature in the Philoctetes . In read- ing those fine apostrophes to sleep , to the stars , rocks , mountains and waves , I ...
... genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . I ad- mire the love of nature in the Philoctetes . In read- ing those fine apostrophes to sleep , to the stars , rocks , mountains and waves , I ...
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... genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is ren- dered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judg- ment . Familiar as the voice ...
... genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is ren- dered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judg- ment . Familiar as the voice ...
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